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TIL Memorial Day was started by freed slaves to honor soldiers who died during the civil war

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VV5m TIL there was an episode of Tom and Jerry where they both commit suicide, it is narrated by Jerry.
j6xWR TIL the reason nearly all TV and radio political ads in the United States include something like "I'm _ and I approve this message" is because an act from 2002 requires it
yQM0p TIL The word 'zombie' is never spoken in Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Romero himself didn't initially consider the antagonists in the film to be zombies, later saying "when I made the first film ... To me, zombies were still those boys in the Caribbean doing the wetwork for [Bela] Lugosi."
4kaVX TIL that Guy Bradley, America's first game warden and reformed poacher, worked independently to increase the population of white egrets on Pelican Island, the worlds first wildlife refuge, before being killed by a poacher while investigating gunshots at his waterfront home.
DQ9JV TIL in 2001, the Irish comedy series “Father Ted” was introduced to U.S. audiences through Boston’s WGBH-TV. They aired the show on a trial basis but discontinued it after receiving viewer complaints about it being “Anti-Irish and Anti-Catholic”